gaming
Why is media so… conservative? Paid Members Public
For an industry so obsessed with news, why are we so reluctant to cover new things?
By ignoring gaming, mainstream journalism is eroding trust with younger people Paid Members Public
Are we making a terrible mistake by ignoring games in mainstream journalism?
Publishers & Pokémon Go: there's nothing for the likes of you here Paid Members Public
Publishers won’t – and can’t – learn anything from Pokémon Go [https://www.themediabriefing.com/article/no-publishers-can-t-learn-anything-from-pok-mon-go] says Chris Sutcliffe: > Even thoughtful, forward-thinking pieces about lessons from Pokémon Go like this one from Poynter’s Melody Kramer [http://www.poynter.org/2016/what-journalists-can-learn-from-pokemon-go/420963/] are written with the assumption
Fighting trolling with academic rigour Paid Members Public
Trolling – hostile, provocative anti-social behaviour – is one of the biggest challenges to any large-scale online community – and that includes comment sections on mainstream publications. The problem is far, far bigger in the online gaming world, though. And one of the biggest games in the eSports sector – League of Legends [http:
Making good life choices Paid Members Public
This morning I am mainly questioning my life choices. I just received this through the post: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/03/blizz-box.jpg] What’s inside? Why, a statue to celebrate the fact I have been an unbroken subscriber to World of Warcraft for
Journalism in 2014 Paid Members Public
Paul Bradshaw has provided a handy round-up of what happened in the worlds of digital journalism in 2014 [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2014/12/26/a-review-of-online-journalism-in-2014-and-predictions-for-2015/] . Of note: > YouTube. Media organisations are still overlooking YouTubers in the same way as they overlooked Vice, Buzzfeed et al. But there are serious
LeWeb: Adam Gazzaley will fix your brain with neurogames Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/adam-gazzaley.jpg] What’s the state of the art of improving cognition? Take a 60 year old with attention impairment. Well, he’s unlikely to get functional brain imaging. So, he’ll be diagnosed and given a drug. Right
Obligatory #gamergate post Paid Members Public
Seriously abbreviated version of the #gamergate mess: A bunch of predominantly male gamers are using “concerns about the ethics of games journalism” as a shield for a series of deeply misogynistic attacks [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/so-gamergate-just-women-seem-4508850] on prominent women developers [http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/brianna-wu-gamergate]
